The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-03


tue tenth scot on o. tnls &C shall be
de- m I'd, held ard taken to q local board
If he 9TH, creited under the D DIVISIONS of
this act, and every such board IS hereby
pDpetuated and continued, and is here
by authorized, without reorganiza-
ton to exercise all the powers aud
required to perform all the duties
! applicable to local boards meationed5 10
this act; the members oe every such board
shall continue in office until the expiration
of the terms for which they were originally
appointed; every ordinance which has
heretofore been passed by any common
council, or other governing municipal body,
creating, establishing or organizing, or
providing for the creation, establishment
or organization of any such local board of
health as aforesaid. shall be deelnad, held
and taken to be of the same force and
validity as if it had been passed under the
provisions and authority of this act; and
all ordinances, rules and regulations here
tofore adopted or passed by any such local
board of health as aforesaid, which might
be adopted or passed under the authority
of this act, shall continue to be the ordl-
nances, rules and regulations of such local
board, and shall be of the same force and
valid as if they had been actually adoIt-
ed or passed under the proyisi jns and au-
thority of this act.
IL And be it enacted, That the said
local boards of health shall have power to
pass, alter or amend ordinances, and make
rules aud regulations in regard TO the pub
lie health within their several jurisdictions.
tor the following purposes, but such ordi-
nance shall have three readings before its
final passage, and at least one week shall
intervene between the second and third
readings of said ordinance and a notice
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date when it passed its second reading,
shall be published at least one week prior
to its final passage in at asst one news
paper published in the township, CITY.
town, borough, or other local municipal
government, II any newspaper is published
therein, end if there be no newspaper pub
lished therein, then in some newspaper of
4 the county cireul iting in such township,
city, town, borough, or other local NUM-
cipsl government:
I. To aid in the enforcement of the law
as to the adalteration of all kinds Of food
and drink, and to prevent the sale or ex-
posure for sale of any kind of meat or
vegetable that is unwholessme or unfit for
food;
II To define and are what shall con-
stl e nu sances in los, streets, docks,
wEarves, vessels and piers and all public
or private places;
III. To prevent the spreading Of dan
gerous epidemlcs Or contagious diseases,
and 10 declare that the same has become
epidemic, and to mai ltain and enforce
proper and sufficient Gu ,rantine whenever
deemed necessary;
~. To regulate, control and prohibit
the keeping or slaughtering of all kinds of
animals;
v 70 regulate, control and prohibit the
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vegetable substance;
VI To prohibit and remove any Often
sive matter or abate any nuisance in any
public highway, road, street, avenue, alley
or other place, pnblic ar private, and to
cause the relnoTal Of the same at the ex-
pense Of the owner.
VII. To compel the return Of all births,
deaths and marriages by physicians, mid
wives, nurses, clergs men, magistrates and
other persons professionally officiating at
!, such death, birth or marriage.
VIII. To secure the sanitary condition
of tenement houses, jails, prisons and all
public buildings;
TX. To ri gnlate, con, rol or prohibit the
cleaning of sewers, the Dumping of garb-
age, the filing of sunken lois or marsh
lands, and to provide for the filling up of
such lots or lands
In addition to the powers above enume-
rated all local boards of health except
township boards shall have further power
in like manner:
l, 10 regulate and CO ltrol the method of
construction, the 10, atiJn, the method and
manner OF emptying or cleaning, and the
frequency of cleaning of cesspools and
privies;
II. To regulate AID control the mode Of
connection of houss-drainage aud plumb
ing with outside savers, cesspools or other
receptacles;
Ill. To protect the public water supply
and prevent the polldtion of any stream of
water or WE'LL tn water of which is used
for domestic purp )ses, and to order not to
be used, or closed, any well, the water of
which is polluted or detrimental to public
health
". To remove persons infected to a
suitable place, in case of contagious or in
fictitious disease, where, in the Judgment of
the board, such removal is necessary and
can be accomplished without undue risk
to The person or persons diseased, and to
disinfect the premises when deemed neces-
sarv !;
v. To regulate the burial and disinter-
ment of human bodies.
Is And be it enacted That said local
boards shall, within I'd If respective juris-
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or noxlous odors, gases or vapors, and all
causes of disease, which may be known to
them or brought to their attention which,
10 their opinion, are injurious to the health
of the inhabitants thereiR, and shall cause
the same to be removed and abated;
whenever such nuisanees, noxious doors,
gases or vapors or cause of i'll health or
disease shall be found on public property
or on a highway. notice shall be officially
given by the SAID board to the person in
charge thereof off tally, and such pers pns
snail be notified to remove and abate the
me; and if hers be failure or neglect to
comply with such notice the mode of pro-
cedure shall be the same as hereinafter